As of yesterday, just a little over two weeks after printing it out, I read through draft #7 of Corrosive Knights Book 6.

By “read through” I mean read it from start to end while making considerable notations, corrections, and additions. This process, in the earlier draft stages, can and has taken me sometimes as long as a month or more to do.  Therefore finishing the read through in a little over two weeks (and one of those weeks had my daughter over for Spring Break) is very good news indeed.

What it means is the draft and the story I’m telling “read” quite well.

While there are certain things I still have to fix, I’m pleasantly surprised by how little re-writing is necessary.  I’d say a good 70% or so of the book is, plot and storytelling-wise, done, with the other 30% requiring some rewriting and revision.  Of course, there’s also those pesky grammatical issues to deal with as well.

The bottom line is that as of today I’m back on the computer correcting those errors and/or revisions that need be done.  My hope is to get through this process in the next week to two weeks (we’ll see…I’ll once again have my attention drawn away from writing and towards other non-writing affairs at the tail end of March and into the first week or so of April.  How quickly I finish the revisions on this draft of the book depends on how much time is going to be sucked from my schedule during these days).

Second bottom line: I feel this book will be finished after no more than two further drafts.  One to make sure all the changes/revisions to the story are proper and one final draft to sort out any lingering grammatical issues.

Will the book be ready by May?

I really hope so but, because of some of these outside/non-writing time killers, I can’t be totally certain.  I’ll most certainly give it my best!

More news when I have it…